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AS THE DOVES TO THEIR WINDOWS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

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First Line: THEY THRONG FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST
Last Line: THEY THRONG.
THEY throng from the east and the west,
The north and the south, with a song;
To golden abodes of their rest
They throng.

Eternity stretches out long:
Time, brief at its worst or its best,
Will quit them of ruin and wrong.

A rainbow aloft for their crest,
A palm for their weakness made strong:
As doves breast all winds to their nest,
They throng.



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